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Crowns in the Gutter (Q3 Review/Q4 Preview)
Every quarter at EXIT, we have a review and preview, looking back on what we did in the last quarter and what we’re going to do next. We’re coming up on 350 guys, and the group’s getting big enough that it’s starting to get hard to keep track of everything that’s going on. My right-hand guy, DB,...
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Free State Party with Jeremy Kauffman
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Jeremy Kauffman is the founder of the Free State Party in New Hampshire. He organizes libertarians in New Hampshire through schools, community centers, homeschool pods, and other parallel structures, while encouraging...
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Counter-Organize & Win, feat. Mike Shelby
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Mike Shelby is a former military intelligence officer, contractor, author, EXIT man, and Founder and CEO of Forward Observer, a private intelligence service. The second edition of his book, The Area Intelligence...
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John Del on Yeoman Patriarchy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us John Del is a writer at Steadermen and Junior Ganymede; a long-time EXIT man, fourth in a six-generation natalist project, and patriarch of a family of “debt-free tattooless virgins who love Jesus and their Dad.”...
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Member Q&A: Orania CEO Joost Strydom
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Today is Pioneer Day — a perfect occasion to release our extended conversation with Orania CEO Joost Strydom. People discouraged with the political situation in the West will often lament that “there are still…
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EXIT Q&A: Alex Petkas, Cost of Glory
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Alex Petkas of The Cost of Glory Podcast and The Classical Society joins us to discuss Lycurgus, the primordial lawgiver of Sparta, and what we can learn from him about the birth (or rebirth) of a nation. Alex’s...
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Why Great Men Crave Volatility (feat. Ben Wilson)
Ben Wilson runs the How To Take Over The World podcast. He is also an OG EXIT Man, and my co-founder at Constitutional Action — which began over steaks at the Utah Valley EXIT meetup. Ben’s podcast focuses on great men of history, and the lessons we can draw from their lives in achieving our own...
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Fellow Creators the Creator Seeks
The Free State Party invited me to speak at their event in Manchester, New Hampshire this week. It was a chance to pitch what we’re doing and why to a crowd that was values-aligned, but not steeped in exactly the same memetic environment. The “elevator pitch” for this thing is difficult, because...
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We Have to Prove It (Constitutional Action, American Fork Veterans' Hall, 4/30/2026)
Below is my speech from Constitutional Action at the American Fork Veterans’ Hall, April 30th. At last month’s meeting, we presented a historical model for what is happening in Utah, & how we got here — and I made the case that we need a state government willing to defend its citizens and their...
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John Carter of Mars: Canada's descent into post-national gangsterism
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us John Carter joins us to discuss: * Prospects for Alberta secession * Bilingualism as gibs for Quebec in federal govt * Why Poilievre was crushed by Mark Carney * Chinese money laundering in China through banks and...
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Q&A: Johann Kurtz on reconnecting wealth, vision, and ambition (Re-release)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us (Note: We posted this recording last week in error and withdrew it. This is a re-release to ensure that subscribers receive a working link in their inbox.) Johann Kurtz is the author of Leaving a Legacy and the…
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You Don't Get To Know
This is a transcript. Recording above. Many on the left (and certain factions of the right) have been freaking out over Trump’s latest Genocidal Madman post. He says: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.…
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Q&A: Johann Kurtz on reconnecting wealth, vision, and ambition
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Johann Kurtz is the author of Leaving a Legacy and the Becoming Noble Substack. His work, like EXIT’s, is the restoration of the multigenerational family as a sovereign institution — a Great House. He has left his…
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Constitutional Action
[What follows is a transcript. Please excuse errors.] It’s a great day to talk about the Constitution — because today, apparently, we get to hear whether Ketanji Brown Jackson and Amy Coney Barrett think that we should have a country. EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to shorting managerial systems...
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The Ordeal of Incivility
[This is a transcript — please excuse errors. Full audio recording above.] I’m hearing lately that Utah has Gone Woke. The puppet masters of every institution of power in the Utah conservative establishment are actually secret communists. Governor Spencer Cox is a communist. Also Senator John...
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How to Short the US Government (with Joshua Sheats)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Joshua Sheats lives and does business in the US. He believes the 21st century will prove to be another American Century — and after living and traveling all over the world, has concluded that America’s economic…
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"If you don't tell stories to your kids, somebody else will": writing cultural DNA with Devon Eriksen
Last month, the EXIT guys had an excellent conversation with Devon Eriksen, author of Theft of Fire and professional Very Good Poaster. EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to shorting managerial systems and building the human institutions that come next. Learn more here: We discussed: * The need for...
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[Podcast] The Miracle of Kingship, Revisited
Last Christmas, I wrote an article titled George Bailey and the Miracle of Kingship: It’s my take on it’s a Wonderful Life, which is my favorite Christmas movie, and it’s one that many of you seemed to get a lot out of. EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to shorting managerial systems and building…
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Is it a place or a people? (Patri Friedman)
Patri Friedman is the founder of Pronomos, the leading venture capital firm investing in charter cities, startup societies, and other “future governance” projects — the institutions that will update and supplant the Westphalian system. We recorded a members-only Q&A with him on the project of...
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The Feudal Instinct
EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to building family empires. Learn more here: This is a “director’s cut” of my speech at the Old Glory Club/Weaving event in Portland this weekend — a few added digressions and elaborations. Skilos asked me to speak on organizing our guys. Just to give you my resume,...
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Is We Getting Bread Riots (feat. Mike Shelby)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us [Above is the recording of our discussion with Mike Shelby from Forward Observer, on the broader topic of a “Yellow Revolution” somewhere 2026-2028. Below is a narrower discussion of the role of welfare programs, and...
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Great Houses as engines of human cultivation
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Malachi 4:6 For the last five months, Greg Treat has run our weekly Great Houses call, in which he has laid out a detailed legal, financial…
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Network Preparedness during Hurricane Helene
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us On last night’s EXIT group call, retired Navy veteran and OG EXIT Guy Francis discussed his evacuation from the Augusta area during Hurricane Helene last September, and relief efforts thereafter. Lessons learned:...
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EXIT Member Q&A: Andrew Isker (BonifaceOption)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Andrew Isker (@BonifaceOption) is a Reformed pastor who has planted a church at New Founding’s community in Gainesboro, Tennessee. He went on Tucker Carlson’s show to discuss his church and the new community a few...
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Great Houses Ep. 4: Cults & Company Towns
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] This presentation and Q&A is the fourth in a four-part series. Because of the strong reception to the series, we have made this a weekly call, which is recorded for EXIT members. Modern...
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How to Build a Great House (pt 3 of 4)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us [Part 1] [Part 2] In this episode of the Great Houses series, Greg discusses the “feudal instinct” — a different way of viewing the obligations between employers and employees, or patrons and clients. The feudal...
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How to Build a Great House (pt 2 of 4)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us [Click here to listen to Part 1] In this episode of our Great House series, we address a simplified model of an illegible but enforceable arrangement of patronage between a wealthy family and their clients — or, “How…
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Q&A: Nate Jebb on capturing boomer knowledge
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Every day, tens of thousands of Americans with irreplaceable engineering and manufacturing expertise are retiring. Globalization and the zero-interest-rate money printer economy have pulled America’s greatest…
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How to Build a Great House (pt 1 of 4)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us One of the EXIT guys is an estate planning attorney who helps high-net-worth individuals keep their family empires illegible, enforceable, and aligned. In this call, he introduces the architecture of a...
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Family is the last human institution — and natalism is the last battle.
[Above is my keynote address at NatalCon 2025 this weekend. Full recordings of the event soon to come — please be patient as we get them edited. Below is my response to getting DESTROYED with facts and logic by Lomez later that evening.] I’m very proud of the people we brought together and the...
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NatalCon Sold Out; Catherine Pakaluk on Hannah's Children
This week we had a Q&A with Catherine Pakaluk, professor of economics at The Catholic University of America and author of Hannah’s Children, a study of women with six or more children — what makes them different, how they understand the decision to raise a large family, and what they can teach us...
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"It would be too stressful to do nothing." Dan Hess on birth rate collapse
Last week the EXIT guys had an open-ended Q&A with Dan Hess (More Births) about his quantitative research on birth rate decline. * Areas of volatility/opportunity * Potential corporate policies that could support families * Reactions to the demographic collapse “red pill” * Political consequences...
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Lomez on rebuilding culture in the wasteland
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Recently we invited Lomez (of Office Hours with Lomez) to a Q&A with EXIT guys to discuss his work at Passage Press and what he learned from his many years among the libtards as a lecturer in the English department at...
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How Birth Rate Collapse Killed Sparta and Rome
Every time I post about demographic decline, I get about a hundred replies insisting that the cause of demographic decline is actually extremely obvious — so obvious that only an imbecile (or a subversive!) would even wonder about it. “It’s the dating apps, retard” -- or it’s birth control, or…
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David Kilcullen on China, Syria, & the Future of the Empire
David Kilcullen is one of the world’s foremost experts in counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare. He served for 25 years as an infantry officer in the Australian Army, then with the U.S. State Department, where he was chief strategist in the Counterterrorism Bureau, Senior Counterinsurgency...
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EXIT Member Q&A: Bog Beef on Patronage
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Just after the inauguration, we invited Bog Beef from Good Ol Boyz to our weekly EXIT full-group call to discuss a topic of mutual interest: the power of patronage. Patronage is just a word for the default state of...
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"I'm just trying to hammer home how bad an idea it is to apply to a job"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us This week, @MarmotRespecter presented to the guys on how to get a tech job in the “worst tech hiring market in 25 years”. Marmot explains how AI is swamping automated systems and eliminating entry-level tech jobs,...
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Who will make it through the bottleneck?
This week, Natal Conference cofounder Drew Gorham and I discuss what has changed on the issue of demographic decline since last year’s conference, and what we have planned for NatalCon 2025. I introduce some ideas about what is driving demographic decline — it clearly isn’t just wealth, or…
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Breeding in Captivity (+Tanner Guzy Q&A)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us I asked Tanner Guzy to talk to us about his book, The Appearance of Power, and the role of aesthetics in leadership. That conversation took me down the following rabbithole: “If your kids don’t want to grow up to look...
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Member Q&A with Alex Petkas (Cost of Glory)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Last week, we heard from Alex Petkas from the Cost of Glory Podcast. Alex is a former Classics professor from Princeton who is now focused on classical education, especially for men and boys. We discuss: * How are the...
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Member Q&A: Conscious Caracal on South Africa
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us On last night’s full-group call, we had a members-only Q&A with Conscious Caracal (Ernst Van Zyl), discussing his work with Afriforum, what is working in Orania, and what he sees as the future of the Afrikaner people....
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Member Q&A: The Total State with Auron MacIntyre
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us On last Tuesday night’s full group call, we had a members-only Q&A with Auron MacIntyre, discussing his new book The Total State. Questions: * How does Auron’s book compare with Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed, and how...
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59: How to Fight the West
The UK government appears to be successfully putting down the protests in the UK, making no concession or even acknowledgement of the protestors’ grievances. People on the Right are very smug about these things when they fail — they love to jump into the Twitter replies and register their...
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58 - Community Self Defense in a Declining South Africa with K9 Reaper
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us (Note: the “free preview” of this episode is the full version, and the full recording is also available for free on Spotify. EXIT meetup invites behind the paywall.) K9 Reaper is a private security contractor and...
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Recording: David Kilcullen Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us David Kilcullen is among the world’s leading experts in counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare. He served for 25 years as an infantry officer in the Australian Army, then with the U.S. State Department, where he...
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57: PEG on the French Aristocracy's Selective Breeding Program
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us In this episode, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry discusses the rallye mondain, a network of parties and dinners that emerged among the French aristocracy in the 1950s, to confront the collapse of arranged marriage. It’s...
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Recording: Member Q&A with Johann Kurtz from Becoming Noble
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Here’s the recording of this week’s members-only Q&A with Johann Kurtz, author of Becoming Noble. We asked him to come on the weekly EXIT full-group call to discuss his thesis that dissidents should use captured elite...
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Recording: Clay Martin Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Here’s the recording of last night’s private Q&A with Clay Martin, former Green Beret and author of Concrete Jungle and Prairie Fire. We cover the following topics: * How to meet and vet the people you want on your...
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55 - You Have One Year
This week we're talking about: * The “entrepreneurial temperament” and whether it's real (answer: kind of) * Why our guys aren't preparing even though we all expect the world to go to hell * Why the boomer doomer prepper model no longer makes sense * Acceleration and deterritorialization — the...
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This week: Jamie Dimon; Trump routs the GOP; Texas defies the feds; Houthis blockade Suez
This week, Stormy came to the EXIT group call for a little Q&A on venture capital — what his fund looks for in a founder, what they look for in a project, and how to work the network to get your pitch in the right hands. He also presented an interesting model of the various players in the global...
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